ubuntu-cve-2024-8443
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-09-10 14:15
Modified
2025-10-24 05:06
Summary
Details

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the libopensc OpenPGP driver. A crafted USB device or smart card with malicious responses to the APDUs during the card enrollment process using the pkcs15-init tool may lead to out-of-bound rights, possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Severity
2.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
2.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "opensc",
            "binary_version": "0.20.0-3ubuntu0.1~esm4"
          },
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          }
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          }
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      },
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the libopensc OpenPGP driver. A crafted USB device or smart card with malicious responses to the APDUs during the card enrollment process using the `pkcs15-init` tool may lead to out-of-bound rights, possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-8443",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:06:46Z",
  "published": "2024-09-10T14:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-8443"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8443"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310494"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/CVE-2024-8443"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7346-1"
    },
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7346-3"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2024-8443"
  ]
}



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